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The Family Man
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The Family Man is a 2000 fantasy comedy-drama film directed by Brett Ratner and starring Nicolas Cage, Téa Leoni, and Don Cheadle.Cage plays Jack Campbell, a wealthy, high-powered Wall Street broker who, after getting—and dismissing—a phone message from his old college girlfriend Kate (Leoni) on Christmas Eve, ponders what might have been. He then has a fateful encounter with a young stranger named Cash (Cheadle), who asks Jack if there's anything missing in his life and—being answered in the negative—magically sends him to an Alternate Universe in which he and Kate got married, had kids, and settled down into a lower-middle-class existence in (horrors!) New Jersey. By the end, Jack learns that living a quiet but happy family life may be preferable to achieving success and wealth at work.Similar to It's a Wonderful Life, both in its story and thematic elements and its holiday setting, the film received mixed critical reviews but was a box-office success. In 2023, a South Korean remake called Switch was released with the same premise, except the protagonist is a successful actor rather than a stockbroker.Not to be confused with the Family Guy. Also, the Alternate Universe Jack Campbell goes straight to this trope and the film title. | |
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| The Family Man / int_174ea6a7 | type |
The Dutiful Son | |
| The Family Man / int_174ea6a7 | comment |
The Dutiful Son: Son-in-law, technically. The reason Jack works at Big Ed's Tires is because his father-in-law needed his support following a heart attack. | |
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Adorably Precocious Child | |
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Adorably Precocious Child: Annie. | |
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White Man's Burden | |
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White Man's Burden: Jack, in his status as a powerful man from Wall Street, offers to buy Cash's invalid lottery ticket, and even tries to offer him into assistance programs. This is lampshaded by Cash: | |
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I Need a Freaking Drink | |
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I Need a Freaking Drink: Jack goes straight for the liquor at Evelyn's Christmas party. | |
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Chekhov's Gun | |
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Chekhov's Gun: The bicycle bell that Cash gives Jack, who knows his glimpse is coming to an end when he hears Annie ringing it. | |
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The Diaper Change | |
| The Family Man / int_2489e8bd | comment |
The Diaper Change: Complete with a Tinkle in the Eye. | |
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| The Family Man / int_255a421 | type |
Retail Therapy | |
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Retail Therapy: After losing his patience with a particularly long trip to the mall, Jack visits the men's department at Bloomingdale's for some of this. Soon after, however, he reaches his Rage Breaking Point after Kate refuses to let him buy the $2,400 suit he is trying on. | |
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| The Family Man / int_25f0ed12 | type |
Hollywood Tone-Deaf | |
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Hollywood Tone-Deaf: Jack, during performances of "La donna è mobile" (complete with Air Guitar) and "La La La Means I Love You". Kate, while singing "Beast of Burden". | |
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Ambiguously Jewish | |
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Ambiguously Jewish: Alan Mintz. Despite his character's name and appearance and the fact that he is played by Saul Rubinek, he complains that Jack is making him miss Christmas with his family. | |
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| The Family Man / int_316194d2 | type |
Hyperventilation Bag | |
| The Family Man / int_316194d2 | comment |
Hyperventilation Bag: Cash gives one to Jack. | |
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| The Family Man / int_32cb267a | type |
Magical Negro | |
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Magical Negro: Cash is the black man who sends Jack to a What If? universe to show him what his life might have been if he had taken different choices. It's never stated, though implied, that he's Jack's guardian angel. | |
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Long-Distance Relationship | |
| The Family Man / int_3497a64e | comment |
Long-Distance Relationship: Averted; Jack and Kate's youthful attempt to have one of these clearly did not succeed. | |
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| The Family Man / int_35ae6a23 | type |
Lethal Chef | |
| The Family Man / int_35ae6a23 | comment |
Lethal Chef: Evelyn. Her attempt to seduce Jack by shoving a homemade mushroom puff into his mouth fails as soon as he tastes it. | |
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It's Cuban | |
| The Family Man / int_37707f7a | comment |
It's Cuban: Averted; Jack's friend Nick offers American-made cigars at the Christmas party. | |
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| The Family Man / int_3a92b459 | type |
Please, I Will Do Anything! | |
| The Family Man / int_3a92b459 | comment |
Please, I Will Do Anything!: Jack tells Peter that he is willing to park cars if it means working for his company. | |
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| The Family Man / int_4814d132 | type |
Big Fancy House | |
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Big Fancy House: Jack shows Kate the one being offered to him as a perk of joining the New York City investment house. | |
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| The Family Man / int_4e4ea654 | type |
Workaholic | |
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Workaholic: Jack, who often expects his co-workers to match his addiction at the expense of their personal lives. | |
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| The Family Man / int_4f84cdef | type |
Smug Snake | |
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Smug Snake: The alternate version of Alan Mintz. He actually tries to appear intimidating to Jack, who from his perspective is just some upstart or even a fraud looking to hit it big, but since Jack already knows Alan as a timid coworker in the real world, he just laughs in his face. | |
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Effective Knockoff | |
| The Family Man / int_520a179d | comment |
Effective Knockoff: Kate finds a perfect off-brand copy of the Ermenegildo Zegna suit that Jack had been admiring. | |
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Bookends | |
| The Family Man / int_53224e46 | comment |
Bookends: The film begins and ends at an airport. | |
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| The Family Man / int_53968093 | type |
Wet Blanket Wife | |
| The Family Man / int_53968093 | comment |
Wet Blanket Wife: Kate, who resists all of Jack's attempts to improve upon their solid but dull life in middle-class suburbia. | |
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| The Family Man / int_551c5085 | type |
It's a Wonderful Plot | |
| The Family Man / int_551c5085 | comment |
It's a Wonderful Plot: An Inversion. Jack is shown how much fuller and happier his life would be had he stayed with his girlfriend after college rather than moving to London and starting his rich-but-lonely life and career as a high-powered stockbroker. | |
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| The Family Man / int_5d074a80 | type |
Mistaken for Aliens | |
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Mistaken for Aliens: Annie thinks Jack is an alien who has taken the place of her real father. Jack runs with it so she will help him assimilate to his new life. | |
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| The Family Man / int_5d41eb9 | type |
Figure It Out Yourself | |
| The Family Man / int_5d41eb9 | comment |
Figure It Out Yourself: Cash dumps Jack into an alternate life with no information whatsoever about his life, job, etc. So Kate thinks right away that Jack is acting horribly when he forgets their anniversary, doesn't know how to communicate with her, etc. Part of it is that Jack just wants to get back to his own life (initially), but it also stems from the fact he simply doesn't know anything about this new life. | |
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I Want My Beloved to Be Happy | |
| The Family Man / int_60547993 | comment |
Kate also has this attitude in Jack's glimpse: She opposes Jack's pursuit of a finance job in New York from the very beginning and will not hear of leaving behind their comfortable, if dull, suburban life. She does agree to try it after that, but Jack decides to let them keep the life she prefers instead. | |
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Suburbia | |
| The Family Man / int_60df53e2 | comment |
Suburbia: Jack spends much of his glimpse trying to get used to life here. After Kate rejects his efforts to relocate the family to The City, he finally makes peace with their New Jersey home. | |
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| The Family Man / int_617f0563 | type |
Heel–Face Turn | |
| The Family Man / int_617f0563 | comment |
Heel–Face Turn: Jack, though he wasn't a really evil guy to begin with. | |
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Courtly Love | |
| The Family Man / int_6205f4e5 | comment |
Courtly Love: The "quasi-sexual witty banter" between Jack and his neighbor is a downplayed version. | |
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Fancy Dinner | |
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Fancy Dinner: | |
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Literally Loving Thy Neighbor | |
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Literally Loving Thy Neighbor: Evelyn makes it clear to Jack that she would like the two of them to engage in this. | |
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| The Family Man / int_653c5c73 | type |
Cannot Spit It Out | |
| The Family Man / int_653c5c73 | comment |
Cannot Spit It Out: Jack almost tells Kate the truth about his glimpse. Mid-sentence, he changes his mind and tells her that he feels like he is living someone else's life. | |
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Girls Love Chocolate | |
| The Family Man / int_688a6978 | comment |
Girls Love Chocolate: Annie feels better about the glimpse version of Jack after he assures her that he can learn how to make chocolate milk. Kate eats a piece of chocolate cake that Jack had been coveting. | |
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Air Guitar | |
| The Family Man / int_6fbfa62f | comment |
Jack, during performances of "La donna è mobile" (complete with Air Guitar) and "La La La Means I Love You". | |
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| The Family Man / int_775a1af6 | type |
Married to the Job | |
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Married to the Job: In Jack's original life, he didn't really have anything outside of his job as a high-level Wall Street executive. He even spends Christmas night alone because he doesn't have anywhere to go. His boss plays this straight too, though he proudly claims that it's because he's simply a heartless bastard. | |
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| The Family Man / int_7eccbb3d | type |
Shower Scene | |
| The Family Man / int_7eccbb3d | comment |
Shower Scene: Kate is Singing in the Shower before her husband Jack interrupts her. Since from Jack's point of view he hasn't seen her in years, he is quite taken aback by seeing her nude. | |
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Lonely at the Top | |
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Lonely at the Top: Jack's life after moving to London in 1987, although he doesn't realize it until he's shown what might have been had he not embarked on his high-powered Wall Street career. | |
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| The Family Man / int_7fbe9a30 | type |
Freak Out | |
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Freak Out: It wouldn't be a Nicolas Cage movie without a couple. When he wakes up as the husband of Kate and the father of Annie and Josh and has no idea what to make of the situation. When blaming Kate for letting him give up on his dreams of fabulous success in business. | |
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Grande Dame | |
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Grande Dame: Mrs. Peterson, Jack's fur-coated, puppy-carrying neighbor. | |
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Sharp-Dressed Man | |
| The Family Man / int_87ab7f69 | comment |
Sharp-Dressed Man: Jack, at first. His standards decline considerably during his glimpse. | |
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Cool Car | |
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Cool Car: Jack's Ferrari and Peter's Rolls-Royce. | |
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Did Not Get the Girl | |
| The Family Man / int_8b442f50 | comment |
Did Not Get the Girl: Subverted by the end of the film. | |
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Best Friend | |
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Best Friend: Arnie, to Jack. | |
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Big Fun | |
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Big Fun: Bill, Jack and Arnie's overweight, piano-playing neighbor. | |
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Ambition Is Evil | |
| The Family Man / int_9e1e14ea | comment |
Ambition Is Evil: At the outset, Kate worries that her and Jack's relationship will be irreparably hurt if he takes a one-year banking internship. He tries to convince her that this is good for both of them, and he will never stop loving her. Since they clearly broke up at some point that year, and both of them went on to be wealthy, childless singletons, Kate was in the movie's moral right all along. Kate also has this attitude in Jack's glimpse: She opposes Jack's pursuit of a finance job in New York from the very beginning and will not hear of leaving behind their comfortable, if dull, suburban life. She does agree to try it after that, but Jack decides to let them keep the life she prefers instead. | |
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Nice to the Waiter | |
| The Family Man / int_a39d6056 | comment |
Nice to the Waiter: Jack is on a first-name basis with the security guards at his apartment building and his office. | |
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| The Family Man / int_a9e1fab6 | type |
Playful Pursuit | |
| The Family Man / int_a9e1fab6 | comment |
Playful Pursuit: Jack realizes Kate is eating the slice of cake he saved for himself; she responds by running with it, and Jack's irritation quickly turns into a goofy, flirty chase trying to take the cake back until he pulls her down on the stairs. It's the first time he starts bonding to his new modest life. | |
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| The Family Man / int_ab03a74 | type |
Christmas Miracle | |
| The Family Man / int_ab03a74 | comment |
Christmas Miracle: Jack encounters Cash on Christmas Eve, and his glimpse begins with him waking up on Christmas morning in an alternate life where he is Kate's husband and Annie and Josh's father. | |
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The Loins Sleep Tonight | |
| The Family Man / int_ad3e13c5 | comment |
The Loins Sleep Tonight: Jack dozes off while Kate is dressing for sex. | |
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Cue the Rain | |
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Cue the Rain: Frozen version: Jack's glimpse begins and ends with gently falling snow. | |
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Color Motif | |
| The Family Man / int_b869b5b1 | comment |
Color Motif: The first time we see Kate as she is saying goodbye to Jack at the airport, she is wearing a multicolored sweater, symbolizing the conflicting emotions in the scene. Throughout Jack's glimpse, she wears a variety of soft solid colors, symbolizing her contentment with her happy family life. When he finally reconnects with her in the real-life present, she is dressed in head-to-toe black, symbolizing the aggressive, career-driven nature she has developed since she and Jack were last together. | |
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Maybe Ever After | |
| The Family Man / int_b97c2cfb | comment |
Maybe Ever After: Jack experiences what his life would have been like if he had married his college girlfriend Kate, causing him to realize that he's Lonely at the Top in his job as a Wall Street executive. He tracks down Kate, who is in town for only a few days, to make a heartfelt confession about the life he saw they had together. She takes him up on his offer of a cup of coffee to talk things over, but it's left ambiguous if they will become a couple. Even if they do, their life would obviously still be very different from the "glimpse" that the angel showed Jack. | |
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What If? | |
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What If?: The entire meaning of Jack's alternate life, or glimpse. What if he stayed with his girlfriend Kate in the United States rather than travel to London to jumpstart his career in finance? | |
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Precision F-Strike | |
| The Family Man / int_bc00493f | comment |
Precision F-Strike: During Arnie's What the Hell, Hero? scene. This is changed to "foul" in a very slightly edited version of this scene used as a church teaching resource. | |
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Must Have Caffeine | |
| The Family Man / int_bddb820f | comment |
Must Have Caffeine: Kate groggily asks for "strong coffee" on Christmas morning. | |
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Big Friendly Dog | |
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Big Friendly Dog: Lucy, the Campbell family's Mastiff mix. | |
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Corrupt Corporate Executive | |
| The Family Man / int_cbe687ab | comment |
Corrupt Corporate Executive: Jack Campbell's boss kinda comes across as such; he even jokes about the idea. | |
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Misery Builds Character | |
| The Family Man / int_ce6487aa | comment |
Misery Builds Character: After Jack suffers the pain of losing the glimpse of a loving wife and family, he finally begins to lose his single-minded career focus. | |
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What the Hell, Hero? | |
| The Family Man / int_d39e327f | comment |
What the Hell, Hero?: Jack gets one from his alternate-universe buddy Arnie when Jack wants to have a fling with another woman coming onto him (Jack thinks this is OK because this isn't his life, so Kate isn't really his wife). Arnie reminds him how much all of his friends are envious that Jack is happily married to someone like Kate and that he shouldn't "fuck up" the best thing to ever happen to him. | |
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Family Versus Career | |
| The Family Man / int_dce6cd15 | comment |
Family Versus Career: Jack is a rare male example of this dilemma. The real-life Kate has also made this choice, becoming a high-powered corporate lawyer who has yet to marry or have children. Subverted with Alan Mintz. In real life, he has both, but struggles to balance them; in Jack's glimpse, he seems to be better at integrating the two. Averted with P.K. Lassiter, who happily chooses his career every time and only seems to have affection for his horses. | |
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Whole-Plot Reference | |
| The Family Man / int_e303d198 | comment |
Whole-Plot Reference: The Kevin Sorbo movie What If... follows this plotline almost exactly, except the lead male—who is engaged to another woman before he has his glimpse—gave up his faith in addition to the life he could have had with his ex. | |
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Good Ol' Boy | |
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Good Ol' Boy: Big Ed, who sounds and dresses like a Deep South denizen despite being from suburban New Jersey. | |
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Opinion-Changing Dream | |
| The Family Man / int_e98afc99 | comment |
Opinion-Changing Dream: A mysterious man named Cash shows Jack an alternate life where he chose to start a family with his college girlfriend Kate rather than become a Wall Street executive who doesn't yet realize he's Lonely at the Top. Cash describes this as a "glimpse" and thus only temporary, but Jack does wake up in the same place and time before the glimpse began, his downtown bachelor's apartment. The experience leads him to track down Kate and reconnect with her after by giving a heartfelt description of the life he saw they had together. | |
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Artistic License – Geography | |
| The Family Man / int_e9f517e1 | comment |
Artistic License – Geography: Arnie indicates that he and Jack live in Union County, New Jersey. However, signs around town indicate that they live in or near Teaneck in Bergen County, which is not contiguous to Union County. | |
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Asian Store-Owner | |
| The Family Man / int_ebf3c9d1 | comment |
Asian Store-Owner: At the convenience store where Jack and Cash first meet. | |
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Soul-Sucking Retail Job | |
| The Family Man / int_edd102ba | comment |
Soul-Sucking Retail Job: Jack views his job at Big Ed's Tires this way. | |
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Homemade Sweater from Hell | |
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Homemade Sweater from Hell: Kate regales the Christmas party guests with a story of receiving one of these. | |
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Forgotten Anniversary | |
| The Family Man / int_f4bd2a7b | comment |
Forgotten Anniversary: Understandable under the circumstances. Jack makes up for it with a Fancy Dinner in The City. | |
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Earn Your Happy Ending | |
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Earn Your Happy Ending | |
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Happier Home Movie | |
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Happier Home Movie: Jack watches one in which he serenades Kate at her birthday party in front of the entire neighborhood. | |
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